Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 17
He lifted his head, and saw that the bright gleaming was not the reflection of the glittering snow, but the dazzling brightness of the pinions of a mighty angel, into whose beaming face he was gazing.
Who acts: soul, bright gleaming · What happens: lift, see, not be, glitter, gaze · To what, where: head, reflection · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, bright gleaming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 reflection | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gleaming | det |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gleaming | amod |
| 11 | gleaming | gleaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reflection | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reflection | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 reflection | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reflection | det |
| 15 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 snow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snow | det |
| 18 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 snow | amod |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reflection | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brightness | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 brightness | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 brightness | det |
| 23 | dazzling | dazzling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 brightness | amod |
| 24 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pinions | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pinions | det |
| 27 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 brightness | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 angel | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 angel | det |
| 30 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 angel | amod |
| 31 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pinions | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gazing | punct |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 face | case |
| 34 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 36 face | nmod:poss |
| 35 | beaming | beaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 face | compound |
| 36 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gazing | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 gazing | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 gazing | aux |
| 39 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lifted | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | soul | soul's head | the dazzling brightness of the pinions of a mighty angel obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | soul not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | the bright gleaming | the reflection | of the glittering snow | tree rules | |||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | gaze | past · progressive | soul | into beaming face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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